Her Broadway accolades in all four acting categories (best leading and featured actress in a musical and also in a play) were for Terrence McNally's "Master Class," "Ragtime," "Carousel," "A Raisin in the Sun," "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and this past year in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill."

McDonald's other theater credits include "The Secret Garden," "Marie Christine," "Henry IV," "110 in the Shade" and "Twelfth...

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